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Re: CIA director Petraeus resigns over affair

Originally Posted by OpportunityCost

No liberals are troubled by the fact that Patreaus was personally compromised but it was covered for months and endangered national security for purely political reasons? He should have been pulled months ago. NOT three days after the election.

Re: CIA Director Resigns

Originally Posted by Cole

Don't disagree. Always been a fan of the guy and still am. And if he is getting a little strange poon on the side that is his personal family issue to deal with.

I was reflecting on Andrea Mitchell's report/claim this morning that none of this would have ever reached the public eye if Eric Cantor had not "forced the issue". Just projecting how the mainstream press is/may be going to run with it. ...

I’m just amazed that Patreaus is even still around, I mean according to liberals a few years back .. Wasn’t he just another lying Bush mouth piece …. And that was being said
.. Before he ever testified before congress As I recall the leftist nut jobs hated the man … Move on dot org a liberal rag really pushed this … with full support of most liberals as I recall .

Re: CIA director Petraeus resigns over affair

No offense but I don't care. WHat happened at DOD DLA happened as I described and just that way. DCIS monitored our e-mails to make sure they were not being abused.

My brother has worked for the VA for over 30 years and his are also monitored.

Maybe the rules are different for field personnel in the military. I can see that part

No offense, but you're off the mark. There was an initial lock down in the 90s when computers and the internet first became widely used in the military, but since then the rules on "personal use" have relaxed. You're operating on outdated info.

Re: CIA Director Resigns

Who are they? I was talking about me. And if you took the time which apparently you did not to look at some of my positions and opinions you would see that I go all over the place on the spectrum depending on the issue.

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Re: CIA director Petraeus resigns over affair

You made the claim the chances were small... I've attached your quote below. (You Libs have a bad habit of doing this... John W tried it on the Denmark taxation thread.)

I would say flying planes into 3 buildings is far smaller. It's not apples and oranges... it is to show things happen. Blackmail is easier than a coordinated attack with four commercial jetliners.

Originally Posted by Redress

The opportunity for blackmail exists with pretty much every one. It does not make it particularly likely. With the rest of the facts involved, the chance that the issue here is blackmail is vanishingly small. All those details are in this very thread. Is English your second language?

This exercise has been enlightening, for it reminds us once again how lax the Left's views are when it comes to National Security.

Now... Redress... Translate the following for me. Explain what exactly does "compromised" mean?

[B]He was going around the world negotiating various understandings and agreements[/B... And to have someone out there in such a sensitive position who the FBI thought perhaps could have been compromised or was under the scope of an FBI investigation who may or may not have been having an affair at the time, that to me had to have been brought to the president or certainly to the National Security Council. If not, the FBI was derelict in its duty.”

“This is a crisis... of major proportions,” King added. “This is not the usual political thing. We’re not talking about the secretary of commerce or some undersecretary somewhere.

Re: CIA director Petraeus resigns over affair

You made the claim the chances were small... I've attached your quote below. (You Libs have a bad habit of doing this... John W tried it on the Denmark taxation thread.)

I would say flying planes into 3 buildings is far smaller. It's not apples and oranges... it is to show things happen. Blackmail is easier than a coordinated attack with four commercial jetliners.

This exercise has been enlightening, for it reminds us once again how lax the Left's views are when it comes to National Security.

Now... Redress... Translate the following for me. Explain what exactly does "compromised" mean?

Did you read what you quoted? To quote you: "is English your second language?" Words have meaning, and "compromised" does not mean "blackmailed", especially in the context. Here, let me help: compromise - Wiktionary